When Nikolay Davydenko Beat Federer, Nadal & Del Potro To Win ATP Finals 2009! 

@Lime Soda oh yes yes, Nadull Knee was always injured every match he lose. we all have heard many times.

@Lime Soda i dont care about any of these players moron. lmao you tennis fanoys are obsessed with grown men who don't even know you. try talking to a woman for once.

@Lime Soda lol. The desperate, pathetic excuses Nadal fans resort to. Face facts son: Davydenko’s game matches up Perfectly with Nadal’s. Particularly on a hard court where Davydenko neither feared, nor respected Nadal’s straightforward game. If memory serves, Nadal only wriggled out of a 2007 clay court tie in Hamburg by the skin of his balls in a brutal 3 set thriller. I suppose he was Injured then too right?! Tennis is all about match ups and Nadal was fortunate not to run into this guy more often during his prime years.

@Lime Soda You got an excuse for every loss? Lmao.

When Nadal losses he is alwais injured😂😂😂

Rhythm*

@Shawn Breh chill on the toxicity LOL

@Shawn aashole.

@Shawn must be hard being a Nadal hater... sorry bro 😂

2008, 2011, 2012 too

A very interesting year for tennis! A lot hapeened! Among my favorite years of tennis with 2011 and 2017.

Federer, Nalbandian, Safin, Davydenko, Coria. Great talents of the game.

a good mix between ferrer and agassi !

He had AO 2010 in the bag. Then choked v Fed in the QF.

@@armstrongtixid6873 That was a panic attack or too much respect to Roger. In that tournament he wasplaying incredibly, even in that Federer match and suddenly, he switches off and lost dramatically.

@@felipenavarrete7337 ikr, He was up 6-2 3-1 40-30 (on Fed's serve) and then lost 13 games in a row???

Nadal has won indoor Madrid in 2005, the tournament which was replaced by Shanghai from 2009. So Nadal is not missing the 8th masters of the year. It's not his fault that the 8th masters of the year changed place in the middle of his career, such things happen from time to time. Anyway, he doesn't need golden masters. At this point of his career he should only focus on slams.

@@hopy51 No, because he didn't win Miami and Paris!

@@hopy51 this is not same,and you have more then 12,13 years to win shangai after change.

@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Yes, he is missing Miami and Paris. But I think at this point he should only focus on slams.

Nadal only needs Paris and Miami. Not Shanghai

amazingly impressive

IKR, Thiem and cilic had one but I think Davydenko is way better then them

@@farhatk6054 Way better? That's a bit too much. Cilic was in god mode during the second week of US Open 2014, Thiem has proven he can beat Djokovic and Nadal in GS tournaments.

@Lime Soda Thiem is overrated

Yep, at least a slam. Just my preference, but I prefer Davydenko over Safin.. Davydenko (in this video at least) is in absolutely fine form, absolutely amazing

@Lime Soda , yup, good as he is, he had weaknesses. Take away the pace, add depth, Davydenko would have troublr beating the top guys

Positive h2h against prime Rafa and owned him on hardcourts. These fans only look at the Grandslams and think of him as weak player but don't realise that the gs format doesn't suit all players equally well.

Well to be fair he had like 1 good tournament, which was exactly this one

Davydenko no where near Thiem/Tsitsipas

@@Fdanism with 5 titles I recon he had atleast 5 good ones

@@Fdanism Don't agree. He won Paris, Shanghai and Miami masters 1000, several 500 and reached 4 grandslam semifinals.

Nalbandian is the best davydenko is up there

@@adambennaim5500 I agree

I liked Ferrer more

@@dinomijatovic3921 Down to opinion ...

@@armstrongtixid6873 Ok. I think Ferrer was better player of two from same category of players

any other era, he'd have one.

Nalbandan is another but for that back injuries and rios

@Ema Strnad well Rios was a really talented player. And another player I forgot to mention was Fernando Gonzalez. He had the most powerful and amazing forehand in my opinion. Both Rios and Gonzalez are from Chile.

@Ema Strnad yeah Massau too was a good player. Now he is thiem's coach. Anyway enjoy Rios highlights!!!

I know this wasn't really the point of your comment, but reading what you said, I really wish we could have seen davydenko vs the next gen. I especially would love to see how dominic thiem (i know he's not really considered next gen) would have done vs davydenko. The intensity on that court would be off the charts, but one of thiem's trademarks is that he takes nadal's heavy spin forehand style, and implements it off both wings and also aims closer to the baseline. This forces most of his opposition back or else they will be overwhelmed, but as you said, davydenko would have taken those balls on the baseline and I would LOVE to see who would break down in such a contest. would thiem overwhelm davydenko? or would davydenko be able to handle the heat and steal away all of thiem's time?

@@kevinchang8090 well even I would like to see that match!!! Because davydenko's ability to place the ball no matter the speed or spin on the ball is something I tried to instill in my game as well. And as for Thiem he has the ability to hit a winner from literally anywhere on the court. If he takes the ball early he tries to put a lot of speed and flatness otherwise when well behind the baseline he puts speed and a nice amount of topspin. And as for thiem's backhand that is another beautiful aspect of his game! And as for the outcome of the match I guess thiem might be the one who would emerge as winner.

Good group of players there. All three can take the ball on the rise and hit great angles. I always trash Nadal because he can be beaten so easily by truly great players who take the ball on the rise like Davydenko did here. These great players can be forgiven for their lack of consistency.

It's because the rhythm he plays with, he is an absolute maniac hitting on the rise and firing both wings, Federer LOVE to play that rhythm it doesn't bother him at all, Roger's only weakness is the the topspin defensive players

@@farhatk6054 exactly right!

@tano2775 Only earlier in their careers or if they were playing the best tennis of their lives. Otherwise, Federer took them out.

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can't agree more, especially when compared with how Federer and Nadal did

@@xuepengliao9002 Delpotro and Novak have hearts of gold. Look at Novak greeting Davydenko and exchanging shirts with him. Unlike Federer and Nadal, the salty losers who are marketed by the media as gentlemen. they are fake gentlemen

I was just going to comment on this

I know... that basically ended his career

That was in Rotterdam, not the AO

Toronto 2014 Tsonga defeated Djoko, Murray and Federer.

@@Joga11Bonito Not close.

@@Joga11Bonito Mentioning Murray heavily dilutes the comparison

Davydenko beat all 4 slam winners that year - Nadal, Federer and Del Potro. In some ways it is more impressive than Nalbandian's.

@@saikat93ify Nalbandian was better because he didn't lost a match in Madrid, and defeated the three of them in straights.

Injuries

*never.. Your sentence totally conveys a different meaning

'not win' I assume you mean. But yeah watching this performance it's really difficult to believe he never won a slam, it's just other-worldly tennis. Nalbandian was able to produce similar at times but he also never won a slam.

you don't know tennis

@@monstermichaeltoad5705 why don't I know?

@@monstermichaeltoad5705 Yeah, why. I don't see what's wrong with his comment?

Davydenko WAS consistent. He just could not sustain his level in the best of 5. I guess no one can play such high tempo tennis for more than an hour.

Он не психологически не смог, а физически. Если бы ТБШ играли из 3 сетов, у него был бы не один и не два. Но их играют из 5. Невозможно играть в таком темпе больше часа-полутора.

Metreveli, Cesnacov, Rubliev, Anndrev ( Volcov ) 😢

Medvedev today !!!!

@King of Clay Lol they faced each other 11 times ..not 2 or 3 times....6-5 is a very nice record vs Nadal ....its useless H2H for u bcoz ur idols trails in it

@aman these H2H will never matter in history...End of the day nadal share max grand slams with federer on earth.

@King of Clay dirt ball retriever is all nadull is. it takes actual skill on grass and hardcourt.

@King of Clay nunca va a ganar el Masters, sorry

and Dustin Brown ...the King !! hihihihi